Robert Platt, Baron Platt

Robert Platt, Baron Platt (16 April 1900 – 30 June 1978), known as Sir Robert Platt, 1st Baronet between 1959 and 1967, was a British physician. Quotes The unprecedented development of science and technology [has been] so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today. "Reflections on Medicine and Humanism: Linacre Lecture", Universities Quarterly, vol. 17 (1963) p. 327. Reported in Maurice B. Strauss (ed.) Familiar Medical Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1968) p. 531 · W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005) p. 495 External links Category:1900 births Category:1978 deaths Category:Physicians from England